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RE: And yet they lament the paucity of younger people entering the hobby

I have a very satisfying system in our living room (my listening room is of course better still) which consists of a NuForce DDA-120 integrated amp ($275 used), Polk R300 floorstanders ($100 for the pair - on sale) and either a Raspberry Pi4 ($80) or Roku player ($70?) for sources. digital signal is fed via HDMI to the TV and comes out as optical PCM digital where it is fed to the DDA-120. So assuming one already owns a TV and some sort of streamer box like a Roku, total cost about $375 plus cables. I use a Blue Jeans toslink cable and Mogami 3103 / Cardas bananas (already had them) for speaker cables.

Any young person with a job could put together such a system and I lived with just that system for a couple of years. The NuForce amp is very good.



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